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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 686194, member: 2972&quot;]Thank you for the clarification, Drusus.&nbsp;&nbsp; That makes much more sense now and I find myself agreeing with much of what you&#039;ve written.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, you don&#039;t have to ruin coins to realize coins tone differently in the same conditions.&nbsp; Take two coins from a mint set, or bank/mint roll and store then in a taco bell napkin, envelope, or coin album.&nbsp; Put them away for a year, and take a look at them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll wager your results will be the same as my own -- the coins come out looking very different.&nbsp; While there will often be some similarities in the look of the coins, the results will vary dramatically.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why is this the case?&nbsp; Frankly, I&#039;m not sure.&nbsp; My best guess is that toning, like many things governed roughly by physics/chemistry, are highly dependent on initial conditions (see Butterfly Effect) --&nbsp; but the results don&#039;t lie and two coins stored exactly the same will often result in very different toning looks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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